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Darks drifts covered the horizon. A strange shadow approaching nearer and nearer, was spreading litt...

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poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would...

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For twenty-five years I've been speaking and writing in defense of your right to happiness in this w...

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The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living ...

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In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to ma...

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The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of ...

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Many governments have been founded upon the principle of the subordination and serfdom of certain cl...

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I recollect once of having heard a gentleman from one of the northern States, of great power and abi...

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The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece ofspecious humbug designed to conceal i...

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1. Bangladesh.... In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani genera...

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Are you a communist?""No I am an anti-fascist""For a long time?""Since I have understood fascism.

You had to have these peasant leaders quickly in this sort of war and a real peasant leader might be...

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...The singing of a man cast away upon a desolate island might be as appropriately considered as evi...

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Frederick DouglassNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

...he was not so much a human as a civil war.

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H. G. WellsThe History of Mr. Polly

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

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Karl MarxDas Kapital/Das kommunistische Manifest

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others. But for the Civ...

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If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equa...

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Chamberlain raised his saber, let loose the shout that was the greatest sound he could make, boiling...

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War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

Why, sir, in the beginning we appointed all our worst generals to command the armies, and all our be...

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A civil war is, may we say, the prototype of all war, for in the persons of fellow citizens who happ...

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Robert Penn WarrenThe Legacy of the Civil War